Love the story and your style, I can almost feel I am in the setting and part of the story. I am looking forward to whats next and where we go! awesome and quite entertaining! Thank you for sharing these lovely tidbits, and thank you for checking in on my pages as well!🙂 You are a treasure as are your shared words!

Hi Joe, thank you. Your posts always cheer me up, as they are both hopeful and inspiring. You see the best in people and I admire that. I always look forward to reading your work. It’s a gift to uplift people and you have it.

Another great update. I don’t know how you keep all these characters straight. I am in awe because I struggle with the two or three who poplulate my stories. I found myself really liking Xan and Edith. They seem like a great couple.

Thanks, John, I’m glad you like them, as I’ve never published a longer story with Xan and Edith before, so I wasn’t sure what the reception would be. The reason I’m able to juggle with so many characters is (admittedly) that I spend most of my free life (21 years or so) living there. It would be good to be able to function properly in the real world, but sadly I’m one of those who has trouble doing so. Thanks for reading, I always appreciate it and I am very much enjoying reading your On The Road series.

Good to meet you Apurva, thank you. It means a lot. I’m enjoying reading your poetry. Did you also do some of the illustrations on your site? They’re beautiful especially the illustration you use for your icon. Cheryl

I like Xan and Edith too. And like others have said, your stories remind me of one of my favorite chapters in Fellowship of the Ring–the house of Tom Bombadil. Despite the fear and horror the hobbits experience, here at last is a haven.

Thank you, that means a lot! This kind act by Xan and Edith is a catalyst for future characters to come into being, as well as a haven for Antun and Inajda. I’m glad I shared it with you. It’s frightening how some of the events which came afterwards wouldn’t happen and the story would end if Inajda hadn’t survived. (I loved reading the Adventures of Tom Bombadil btw)

Hi Lillian, thank you, that means a lot. It’s good to meet you. I noticed you’re published by May December, you may know a friend of mine also published by them, Chantal Boudreau? I’m glad you like this drawing, as it’s one of my favourites. I can see the humour and love Edith has for Xan. One of those special moments between two people, rarely captured, and you spotted it.🙂 Cheryl.

Terrific read. Compelling and I want to go back and read from the beginning as time permits. I want to know who these characters are. Why are they who they are. What have them been up to and has has their world developed. Not to mention, your art work is positively amazing.

Thank you so much, Sheri, that means a lot to me, especially considering your background. I’m glad this short story conjures these questions for you about their history. It’s one of the reasons I write. Very good to meet you. Cheryl.

Hi John, it’s always good to see you here, and I know how busy you are, (but I missed you)🙂 btw I’m enjoying reading and viewing the 100 series. Thank you, as always your visit is much appreciated. Cheryl

I love the illustration of Edith with her hand over Xan’s mouth. There’s something in the way she looks at him that speaks volumes about the love she bears her husband. Even if there were no words to accompany it, I would know.

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The blurb for Unbound Boxes Limping Gods

(Set in 4041, the first book begins on Christmas Island, Japan.) Alexand Merek is a woman who treasures "Bad Things," and delights in music. She has done something stupid, placing those she loves in danger. Women like her are not welcome in the ordinary world, where women who play piano and dance with wives are placed into, "The Bad Thing Box." Alexand must fight to bring her lost family back together to save them from an unimaginable fate. (If you would like to see this book published, please press the follow button. The writer gives life to a story, but the reader keeps it alive.)

This is for you Dad.

My stories and my world are dedicated to you, Dad. You died before I was old enough to know who you were. I will try to find you in my stories, to go to places far away from this world, to search for you. Maybe one day I'll know you again. Until then I'll keep writing.
I'll never forget you.
Cheryl

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Cheryl